"Mr Libido Incognito" <[email hidden]> wrote
Quoted message said:Nancy Young wrote on 16 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I forget how I explained it to her, she understood, I think. First
she'd heard of grades of maple syrup.
Quoted message said:Nevermind this!!! It's story time...tell all about your trip already!!!
(laugh!) You know, I didn't come back with any stories ... had a great
time, but nothing ... untoward or unusual happened. You know, no
guy sitting on his muffin, nothing!
Left Saturday morning completely unaware we were heading out right
before a good sized snow storm. Broke records around here, I
understand. Came home today, it was in the 60s, no snow, all melted.
Great timing, I would say.
The good news is, I'd asked my brother to stop by on his way to work,
please look in on my cat, make sure she has food and water, bring in
the mail and the papers, blah blah blah. Got cold feet (harrr) at the last
day, worried about leaving her alone, arranged for a kennel. Well, he
would have been cursing me out, digging out my driveway, just to get to
a cat he's allergic to. I would never have heard the end of it.
I ate a TON of food, most of it quite uninteresting. Had a real Cobb Salad
at the Brown Derby, that's the restaurant where it was invented, in
Hollywood.
The waitress brought over a couple of large spoons on a napkin, put them on
the edge of the table and said, that's for your Cobb salad. Hmmm. Okay,
not familiar with eating a salad with spoons. Turns out the salad comes
with
a man who mixes it up for you. (laugh) I said thank you because I wasn't
sure
maybe it was one of those deals you have to say when or they'll keep going,
you know, like with the pepper mill? It was very good but boy, I never saw
such a finely chopped green salad in all my life. Teensy chopped. Very
good,
could indeed have eaten it with a spoon.
Apparently the UK is empty, all of the citizens are at Disneyworld. I had
to
laugh when the plane was boarded, a swarm of British teens almost filled the
plane. I think they were following me. Well, okay, not really. I was
thinking
of shouting LIAM to see how many turned around, must be a common name
there. They were quite excited to see the Statue of Liberty and the Empire
State Building as we were landing, it was cute.
Canada is still my favorite stop in Epcot (smile). Fabulous film. Never
gets old, I love it. They people who work at the countries in the world
showcase are from those countries, there was a cute Canadian guy with
that cute Canadian accent.
Perhaps they sold maple syrup there, I didn't look. No plans
of putting that in my luggage!
In England I bought something I have heard about here so many times.
Digestive biscuits. For once and for all, I would know what they were.
McVitie's, The Original Digestive. Very good and not unlike a soft graham
cracker. The English girl working there thought it was a strange purchase,
I think ... she kinda looked at me funny.
I'm still kicking myself I didn't have the carne asada at Mexico. I
don't know why. Stupid stupid stupid.
Heh, when I was in Who Wants to be a Millionaire (a show), they
focused on someone in the audience, put them up on the tv. Host said
hi! and they panned away. Wait! he said, put the camera back on them.
Are you from Minnesota? They looked dumbfounded, how did he know
that? I hadn't heard them say anything but he sure nailed it. So funny.
One night I had a chance to order chicken fried steak so I could tell
Jill I had it. I didn't, and didn't make it back to correct that gaffe.
Anyway, I had a blast and hey ... 4 parks in 4 days, I was amazed I made
it, no kidding.
nancy
